1930s – 1940s

1934

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Ellinor Bean Hauke
class.notes@uvm.edu

1935

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Ray Collins
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1937

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Gilbert Rist
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1938

Don’t miss the fun and the memories. Plan now to join your classmates in celebrating your 70th reunion.

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UVM Alumni and Parent Programs
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1939

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Mary Shakespeare Minckler
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1940

Elinor Sullivan Adams wrote that she is concerned about the political situation and violence throughout the world. She thinks we should take time to evaluate the events that are taking place. On a more cheerful note, Elinor is aware that many people everywhere are working for a better world. I was delighted to receive information about the Addison County Fair and Field Days that Lucien Paquette started in 1948 when he was a UVM County extension agent in agriculture. He started the Hand Mowing Contest in 1978, and he continues to supervise it. For the past two years, he has competed in the class for 80 years and over, placing first in the class of three. On October 20, I attended a lecture at Princeton University by Professor Gordon Wood, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Radicalism of the American Revolution. The title of Dr. Wood’s lecture was “Revolutionary Characters:  What Made the Founding Fathers Different.” The Davis Student Center, home for numerous campus organizations, has been officially dedicated and is enjoyed by a delighted student body. 

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Mary Nelson Tanner
marytanner@earthlink.net

1941

Hank Beauchemin let us know that he was honored to have been inducted into the UVM Athletic Hall of Fame in recognition of his years of playing on the varsity baseball, basketball, and football teams. After retiring from his position as district manager of the Massacusetts Electric Company, Hank and his wife, Mary, lived in Florida, where he enjoyed playing golf. In recent years, they returned to Manchester, New Hampshire, to be near their eight children and grandchildren. They celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on Thanksgiving Day. Our class president Carole Stetson Spaulding reported that she and Rae Sheehan Cummings joined with hundreds of guests to celebrate the successful completion of The Campaign for The University of Vermont. The Celebration Dinner was held in the beautiful Grand Maple Ballroom in the new Dudley Davis Center. Another beautiful room at the building’s west end was one of several generous gifts to UVM from Frank Livak, and is named for Frank H. Livak ’41 and Mildred S. Livak. Carole also noted with sadness the death of Lorraine Carver Bliss in September 2007. 

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Maywood Metcalf Kenney
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1942

I am sad to report the death of three more classmates, Nora Hill Akley, Pearl Marvin Welch, and John Burgess. 

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Gwen Marshia Brown
class.notes@uvm.edu

1943

Don’t be among the missing. Your classmates are counting on you to come back and join in the fun at Reunion, May 29 – June 1, 2008.

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June Hoffman Dorion
june_dorion@comcast.com

1944

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UVM Alumni and

Parent Programs
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1945

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Kay Hennessey
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1946

The new Davis Center was dedicated on October 5 with a large crowd and Vermont sunshine. Betty Johnson Bahrenberg and I went to the volunteer breakfast Saturday morning in the Maple Ballroom in the new Davis Center. It was so interesting to tour the building after seeing it rise on Main Street. It is a student center larger than Waterman, holding meeting rooms, restaurants, a pub!, the UVM bookstore, and 250-seat gathering hall.   Good news for Betty: Her daughter-in-law, Diane, has been chosen Vermont’s Teacher of the Year. Diane will travel to Texas and Washington  D.C. representing Vermont when the National Teacher of the Year is selected. Mary Jean Dunsmore Cox is in Reno to be near her seriously ill daughter. Peggy Miller Logan has two great grandchildren, and she is still happy to have a grandchild  in the same house with them. Fund raising calls are coming up so be ready to make your pledge, and please pass on your good news so we can include it in our next column.

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Harriet Bristol Saville
hattiesaville@comcast.net

1947

I had hoped that I wouldn't have to write something to fill this space! Please help me out and send your news for the next issue— we're all waiting to hear from you.

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Louise  Jordan Harper
class.notes@uvm.edu

1948

Alleging to be pseudo-retired, Ben Bursten of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, reported that he has contracts with the U.S. Department of Energy, the local state mental hospital, and the local mental health center for purposes of forensic psychiatric evaluation. In his spare time, Ben is writing a book, Changing Times and Changing Crimes, dealing with the social forces behind making a behavior a crime or removing it from a list of crimes. Maxine Margolis Hirsch of Long Beach, N.Y., enjoys teaching adult students at Kingsborough College in Brooklyn. Maxine has made a most generous offer to host any UVM graduate who may want an escort in the big city. After more than fifty years in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Carleton Sprague has moved to Port Isabel, Texas. “Shorty” is leading a busy life attempting to match his age with his golf score. He hopes to be present at our 60th reunion, and I hope lots of our classmates will come to UVM for our 60th Reunion, May 29 – June 1, 2008.  

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Marilyn Mills Houston
laney4@verizon.net

1949

It’s with sadness that I report the death of Mary Henderson Robertson, better known in college as “Bunkie.” She was a close friend of mine whom I’ve seen over the years, most recently in Peru, Vermont, where she and her husband Willard Robertson ’50 have lived since 1972. While at UVM, she majored in home economics and was active in sports and drama as well as being president of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. The Robertsons had lived in Michigan while raising their family. She died in Durango, Colorado, on September 6 at the age of eighty while she and her husband were visiting their son Jim and his family. Survivors include sons David and Peter. After leaving UVM, Lionel Lewis received an Atomic Energy Commission Fellowship in radiological physics at the Medical College of Rochester University where he earned a master’s degree in biophysics. He retired in 1989 after a 28-year career in nuclear power at Duke Power Company in North Carolina, where he established the radiation protection program for all their plants. He has three children and a grandchild with his first wife, and he is now married to a medical doctor who lived in Uruguay where he resided after retirement. Lionel has now moved back to Charlotte, North Carolina. He recently wrote that he is trying to locate a classmate whom he met very briefly at our graduation from UVM in 1949. He would like to hear from her again if she’s out there. We’d love to hear news about more classmates. Now that we are all turning eighty years old, it would be great to update our friends. Please write me with your updates for the next issue. As for me, I’m enjoying playing golf and bridge, boating, swimming, and traveling, while living in the same country home on the Canadian border in Vermont. I also enjoy spending time with my high school friend Al Callahan in West Hartford, Connecticut, and New Smyrna Beach, Florida. How about you?

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Pat Brush Hunt
pat.hunt@kingcon.com

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